CVE-2020-16291 Information

Description

A buffer overflow vulnerability in contrib/gdevdj9.c of Artifex Software GhostScript v9.50 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted PDF file. This is fixed in v9.51.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;h=4f73e8b4d578e69a17f452fa60d2130c5faaefd6 https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701787 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00032.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-20 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4469-1/ https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4748

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5